Thank God for our Enemies
John Kerry is the GOP’s best friend.
Because A Friend Reminded Me How Much I Love This Ad
I Love Donald Rumsfeld
In that heterosexual kinda way. This is just great.
One constant in Washington since the Iraq war went sour is that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is out the door. The latest word from Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol is that Mr. Rumsfeld will leave after the Nov. 7 elections.Mark Larson, host of a popular radio talk show on KOGO in San Diego, asked Mr. Rumsfeld about the prediction during a live interview this week at the White House. “Rumsfeld will leave after the election,” Mr. Kristol said on Fox News Sunday.
”That fellow said the same damn thing in April of 2001,” Mr. Rumsfeld responded. “He has been on that shtick, and people keep repeating it and repeating it. I don’t know why they listen to him. He’s been wrong so many times. There ought to be some accountability.”
Progress
Tonight, unaccompanied by any object, Evelyn stood upright repeatedly. She hasn’t mastered taking steps, but she stood straight up, clapped, and said, “yay.” She did it over and over and over.
Progress.
The Price of Accessibility
At some point, I don’t know when or how or why, I realized that I have become something more than I actually see myself. I can’t describe it exactly.
I’m now getting over 600 emails a day — and that’s not spam. It’s people wanting my advice, seeking to give input, work stuff, personal stuff. It’s overwhelming.
Then there is Instant Messenger. Everybody want to chat — to randomly send information, etc. It’s awesome to get IM’d from people I’ve always thought were the top dogs and to get a reply from Rush to an email I sent him.
But I feel like I’m always on now. Christy and Evelyn are just a part of the mix — not a separate focus. It’s wearing me out and I’m missing the family even though they might be sitting right next to me. At least Christy keeps me grounded and Evie keeps me focused.
For a while now people have randomly called the house. They want to give me information, be a leaker of information, complain about something I’ve written. Luckily no death threats in a long time. But the call frequency has gone up.
At some point something’s got to change.
And the icing on the cake? The realization that every one of my friends lives at least 2 hours away. I need to go to the driving range.
Racism!
At least, that is what Harold Ford, Jr. is screaming about this ad, which I think is one heck of an awesome ad.
Design of an Icon
For nursing mothers. Hahaha.
Can the Polls Be Wrong?
Can the polls be wrong? Consider this.
On October 5, 2002, the Atlanta Journal and WSB-TV conducted a poll showing Roy Barnes at 49% and Sonny Perdue at 42%. In mid-October of 2002, Mason-Dixon showed Roy Barnes at 48% and Sonny Perdue at 39%. On November 4, 2002, one day before the election, the Atlanta Journal/WSB-TV poll showed Roy Barnes at 51% and Sonny Perdue at 40%. The internal polling of the Barnes campaign showed similar results. So did the internals of the Perdue campaign, except the Perdue campaign was no longer looking at its internal polling. Instead, the campaign was looking at its GOTV ground game data and knew Perdue would win.
On November 5, 2002, Sonny Perdue beat Roy Barnes 51.4% to 46.3% with the Libertarian taking 2.3% of the vote.
The polls were wrong. Well, the polls, per say, were not wrong. They measured the temperature in the state at the time they were taken. But one day before the election a credible poll showed the Democrat winning and the actual results were a mirror image, with the Republican winning. Why?
Because the polls cannot measure the intensity of the GOP’s ground game and that ground game is that good. It was put in place in 2000. It was refined in places like Georgia in 2002 and in Ohio in 2004. And now the GOP is set to unleash it again.
So keep this in mind — the polls may be an accurate indicator of public sentiment, but the only result that counts occurs on November 7th inside polling booths. And that is to the GOP’s advantage.
Teddy Kennedy: Add Traitor In With Murderer
This does not surprise me.
In his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan’s foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.The letter, dated May 14, 1983, was sent from the head of the KGB to Yuri Andropov, who was then General Secretary of the Soviet Union’s Communist Party.
Why Was I In The West Wing?
I can now give you a partial answer. Go here.